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While still very far from fully resolving the Riemann hypothesis, the breakthrough is the first substantial improvement to a classical 1940 Ingham bound regarding the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function.
The FAA has issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission as the company has met all safety and other licensing requirements for the flight.
Daniel Kokotajlo joined OpenAI with the hope that it would invest much more in safety research, but the company never made that pivot.
ht is a command-line program that wraps an arbitrary other binary with a VT100-style terminal interface, allowing easy programmatic access to the input and output of that terminal.
Nearly all information posted on Chinese news portals, blogs, forums, and social media sites between 1995 and 2005 is no longer available.
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Instagram is testing unskippable ads. The ads display a countdown timer and stop users from being able to browse through more content on the app until they view the ad. Instagram has shifted over the years to become more of a video-sharing network, so it makes sense that it is considering becoming more like YouTube. The majority of reactions to the feature have been negative.
Sam Altman is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific and aggressive individual investors. He manages an investment empire with holdings worth at least $2.8 billion as of early this year. Much of the portfolio isn't widely known. This article takes readers through what's known about Altman's investments.
A birth control gel for males, which contains testosterone and a synthetic hormone called Nestorone that reduces sperm production, is showing promise in clinical trials. Researchers recently presented encouraging phase 2 trial results on the hormonal gel. The second part of the two-part trial is still underway, but initial findings have found that the contraceptive works faster than expected. On average, the time for effective contraception was eight weeks. This article also covers some other types of male birth control currently under development.
Quaise Energy plans to deploy gyrotron drills to vaporize rocks using powerful microwaves to dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. Gyrotrons use high-power linear-beam vacuum tubes to generate millimeter-length electromagnetic waves. The technology is used in nuclear fusion research to heat and control plasma. It could make technologies like geothermal energy viable in more areas of the planet.
Mesop is a Python-based UI framework that allows developers to rapidly build web and internal apps. It allows developers to write UI in idiomatic Python code without writing JavaScript, CSS, or HTML. Mesop features ready-to-use components, hot reload, rich IDE support, and more. A demo gallery built in pure Mesop is available.
Brioche is a package manager and build tool designed to be flexible and easy to use. It leverages TypeScript for fancy type-checking and autocompletion. Brioche is currently in Technical Preview and limited to x86-64 Linux. This post includes an example Brioche project file to help developers get started.
Technology has become entangled with the structure of society and we can no longer see the world around us without it. Our data-centric way of seeing the world isn't serving us well. Tools are controlled by human users, whereas machines only do what their designers want. Technologists should build tools rather than machines. Seeing like a data structure is a choice and there are different paths we can take.
Media behaved very differently before the internet. It was expensive to create and distribute. The internet reduced the cost of creating content to zero, allowing a lot of user generated content to be created as creating content didn't cost anything anymore. Content behaved differently once it no longer had to make money. Software is expensive because developers are expensive. Large language models could drive the cost of creating software to zero - this will likely result in a Cambrian explosion of software, similar to what happened with content.
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It's possible to attract people who aren't happy with their current circumstances to give an alternative a chance if you simply show how it works and allow them to conclude by themselves what the better choice is.
Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs will feature a neural processing unit that meets Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirements, upgraded architectures for its P-cores and E-cores, next-generation GPU architectures, and some packaging changes.
Synthetic cartilage-capped regenerative osteochondral plugs can be implanted with existing surgical tools and protocols, do not require pre-loading with cells or growth factors to induce healing, and provide immediate support for joint function once implanted.
Y Combinator president Garry Tan went to DC to start engaging policymakers and to be the voice of little tech.
The ModRetro Chromatic features a magnesium alloy case, sapphire crystal cover glass, PBT buttons, a pixel-perfect IPS screen, and a screen capable of well over a thousand nits of brightness.
Technology gives individuals choice and control - it is enabling people to move to more attractive places and create entirely new communities.
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Plaid's annual customer conference, Plaid Effects [4], is happening on June 18. And the lineup is packed with the biggest names in fintech!
Nvidia has unveiled a new generation of artificial intelligence chip architecture called Rubin. The company only just announced its upcoming Blackwell model in March - those chips are still in production and expected to ship to customers later in 2024. Nvidia has pledged to release new AI chip models on a one-year rhythm. The less-than-three-month turnaround from Blackwell to Rubin underscores the competitive frenzy in the AI chip market.
SpaceX has revealed plans to launch its Starlink system for phones this fall in a filing about the FCC's new rules on supplying satellite connectivity to US carriers. The company says that the FCC's current framework for supplying satellite connectivity to phones is too restrictive and has urged the agency to loosen the aggregate limit on radio frequencies for cellular satellites, specifically the “one-size-fits-all aggregate out-of-band power flux-density.” It backs replacing the restriction with more granular band-specific limits. SpaceX's rivals have lobbied the Commission to maintain the restriction to protect against potential radio interference.
'The Third Thumb' is a 3D-printed robotic wearable designed to enhance users' biological capabilities. Controlled by users' toes, the robotic thumb sits on the side of the palm opposite users' biological thumbs, resembling a sixth elongated finger. It is operated through a pair of sensors under each big toe - pressure applied by the right toe moves the thumb side to side, while pressure from the left toe moves it up and down. The device can be used to complete tasks that would ordinarily be difficult or impossible to perform with just a thumb and fingers. A video demonstrating what The Third Thumb can do is available in the article.
Smell in humans is experienced through about 400 types of receptors in the nose. Scientists are using machine learning to help computers learn what certain molecules or sets of molecules smell like to humans. Machine learning is key to digitizing smells because it can learn to map the molecular structure of an odor-causing compound to textual odor descriptors. Dataset sizes have grown significantly in the past few years, allowing researchers to finally apply machine learning to machine olfaction. The technology has promising applications such as personalized perfumes and fragrances, better insect repellents, novel chemical sensors, early detection of diseases, and more realistic augmented reality experiences.
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Jurny's AI platform automates operations for hotel and short-term rental operations (+$355B in inefficiencies [9]). In 2023, the company's customer base grew 5x, it processed $35M+ in bookings, and secured partnerships with Airbnb, Vrbo, and Expedia. For a limited
Pliny the Prompter posted a jailbreak for OpenAI's newest foundation model, GPT-4o, just a few hours after it was released. The jailbreak allowed users to get the model to output explicit copyrighted lyrics, instructions for making banned items, strategic plans for attacks, and medical advice based on X-rays. Pliny has been finding jailbreaks for leading large language models for around 9 months. This article contains an interview with the prompter where they discuss what motivates them, their approach to jailbreaking a new model, legal ramifications from AI jailbreaking, jailbreaking ethics, and more.
Building with AI is now more accessible than ever, but it can still be difficult to build products and systems that are effective beyond a demo. This guide teaches readers how to build successful products with large language models. It draws from the authors' experiences of building applications with LLMs over the past year. The guide discusses tactics, operations, and strategies for building with LLMs.
SpaceX's Starlink has been making the internet accessible to previously isolated tribes in Brazil since 2022. This article looks at what happened to the Marubo tribe, a community that has preserved its way of life for hundreds of years through isolation, after it gained access to the internet. While everyone in the tribe was happy when the technology arrived as the internet brought clear benefits, such as the ability to chat with faraway loved ones and call for help in emergencies, people in the tribe feel things have gotten worse. The internet has become essential to the tribe, but at a cost.
Startups can survive extremely competitive environments by having good taste. Taste is how a business differentiates itself when attention is scarce and choice is abundant. Knowing what to make is just as important as the ability to make it. MSCHF is a business that has managed to scale its taste without compromising on it. This article looks at how the company releases so many products while staying through to its original vision, how it keeps its team creative and engaged, and lessons from the company that can be applied by anyone.
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Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Y Combinator, is trying to build a lobbying operation that fights on behalf of Little Tech due to concerns that federal regulations meant to mitigate the potential harms of AI will instead help tech giants maintain their lead on the technology, boxing out smaller players.
Labs with money are acquiring and creating non-public data.
Manifest is a complete backend that features a database, admin panel, REST API, and JavaScript SDK that can be set up with just one file of simple code.
This post discusses the idea of a static effect system and how it could be beneficial to programming languages moving forward.
The Chang'e 6 spacecraft touched down on the far side of the moon in a crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin to collect soil and rock samples.
Strong developer communities are now one of the most sought after components when building out a software company or product due to the flywheel of network effects.
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TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for US users. This may result in a version that operates independently of its Chinese parent, which may make it more palatable to lawmakers who want to ban it. Work on the project started before the bill to force a sale of TikTok's US operations began gaining steam in Congress this year. While the project could lay the groundwork for a divestiture of TikTok's US assets, the company has no plans to sell its US assets.
SpaceX's Starship's next test flight could be on June 5. The main objective of the test will be to evaluate the second stage's reusable heat shield as the vehicle tries to safely reenter the atmosphere for the first time. Composed of around 18,000 ceramic hexagonal tiles, the heat shield is vulnerable to even the loss of a single tile in most places. SpaceX still needs to receive a commercial launch license from the US FAA before the launch can move ahead.
Gram-negative bacteria are often hardy, virulent, and quick to evolve resistance to antibiotics. Scientists have developed an antibiotic that kills pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria without impairing the gut microbiome. Still untested in humans, the compound's usefulness will depend on whether the bacteria will develop resistance to it in the long run. The time from an antibiotic's discovery to its approval for clinical use can be more than two decades, and there is not much money to be made with a novel antibiotic - around ten to twenty new Gram-negative antibiotics have been discovered in the past decade but none have gained approval from the US FDA.
Large language models are demanding more and more energy and computational power as they get better. These models need to shrink to become cheap, fast, and environmentally friendly. Researchers use a process called quantization to compress networks by reducing the precision of their parameters. They are now pushing the envelope to single bit, producing models that are faster and more energy efficient than their full-precision counterparts. The quantized versions of the models perform almost as well as their original versions.
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Engineering teams consisting of a couple hundred people might cost $50 to $100 million a year in salary, so it is frustrating for executives when they hear that engineering is an art and that outcomes are unpredictable. The misalignment between engineering leaders and other executives often stems from a lack of flexibility - too many well-meaning engineering leaders go by the book of conventional leadership advice. Applying rules too universally turns them into anti-patterns. The key to effective leadership lies in figuring out which scenarios are worth deliberately defying conventional logic and when to simply follow the rules.